Under the sea salad

It's green. It's molded. It's studded with pears. It's the '80s version of the Jell-O classic - Under-the-sea salad!

Here's a different way to serve a salad - made in a gelatin mold, with a combination of lime Jell-O on top of a layer of a sour cream/jello blend that's studded with nuts and chopped celery.

Here is the 1960s version of Jello’s popular Under-the-Sea salad — a combination of lime gelatin, cream cheese and canned pears — all molded and colorful and ready for your Bewitched or Brady Bunch TV marathon!

(my Jell-O molds) • • • • • • • • • • • (Original molds from The New Joys of Jell-O cookbook and The Joys of Jell-O cookbook.) Here they are! The Under the Sea Jell-O molds. I ended up with a double batch since I only have small meat loaf pans, but that's alright, I'm sure I can part with one of these. And they're surprisingly tasty too. They remind me of a pear-pistachio salad my mom used to make. Enjoy! T

From futuristic test kitchens to Under-the-Sea Salad, midcentury Jell-O took a turn for the weird.

Make and share this Under the Sea Salad recipe from Food.com.

For my friends’ housewarming/ engagement party I wanted to create one the of vintage recipes from the Joys of Jell-O recipe book. I don’t know what it is about the Under-the-Sea Salad …

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I got this recipe from an Amish cookbook entitled Cooking with the Horse and Buggy People. This is recipe is from a Amish lady from Holmes County,Ohio